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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fred Kingston_RIP" data-source="post: 122332" data-attributes="member: 10742">Lightroom is totally non-destructive... That means it does NOT save any RAW file as anything... All it's exporting and converting functions happen without making any changes to the RAW files...LR will convert and save as DNG files... DNG is an open format without compression. RAW (in Nikon's case, NEF) is not an open format... It's proprietary to Nikon... That means, if for whatever reason, 20 years from now, Nikon changes their format and no longer supports their current NEF format, other vendors will still be able to open and support the DNG format...</blockquote>